Decibelles – Vivre Ecorché

Decibelles are an all girl French three piece who make a hell of a lot of noise. Their new single , released on the excellently named April 77 Records, clocks in at just 46 seconds but in that short space of time it makes you think, smile and dance like a loon. Flip side Black [...]

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Linda Guilala

I wonder what Linda Guilala means. I know however that their latest hit single is named “Nadie se dará cuenta“, which google tells me is “Nobody will notice”. Somebody should notice this band however since it’s formed out of the ashes of the venerable pop-punk band Juniper Moon from Spain. Apparently Iván the drummer and [...]

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Scared To Dance 30/10/09

Just a reminder that it is the next installment of our Scared To Dance night this coming Friday. It takes place in our usual venue The Slaughtered Lamb in Clerkenwell and runs between 8pm and 1am the following morning. It’s free entry!
Alongside the regular dj’s will be our special guest disc spinner in the shape [...]

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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Higher Than The Stars EP

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart have certainly flourished in 2009 with a fine début album and a couple of cracking 7″ singles. Having followed the bands progress from their self released debut EP and their first week long UK tour in a freezing February last year to a sell out show at the [...]

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Fizzbombs – Janice Long Session 1987

Further to my earlier posts on The Fizzbombs (see here and here) a reader of indie-mp3 has kindly sent me a copy of the Janice Long Session from June 1987. It’s been digitized from an old radio recording.
Many thanks to Aaron for this!
01 – Blue Summer
02 – Cherry Cherry
03 – It’s Not As Simple As [...]

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Introducing The Blanche Hudson Weekend

The Blanche Hudson Weekend is a new band featuring Caroline and Darren formerly of the recently split Manhattan Love Suicides. They have posted two songs up on My Space which are going to make you salivate as you wait for their debut single due next month on Squirrel Records. To these ears the band sounds [...]

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God Help The Girl to be supported by Pocketbooks

How Does It Feel To Be Loved? have announced that God Help The Girl will be playing the 100 Club on Saturday 21st November. They’ll be supported by indie-mp3 favourites Pocketbooks and all for the bargain price of just £12! You can get your tickets here but be quick as they’re sure to sell out [...]

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Cosmic Call

Cosmic Call is an up and coming band from Akranes, Iceland. Named after interstellar radio messages that were sent from Ukraine in 1999 and 2003, they self-released a 7 song CD recently. To save money on production their families and friends helped out hand sowing the sleeves for all 1000 copies.
I’m posting a song that [...]

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Swing Youth – Myself To Blame/Blade Of Grass

A ‘double-A’ debut release from this Twickenham quartet fronted by brothers Chris and Dave Chanell, who trecked all the way from Watford! It’s a couple of slices of pure pop – inoffensive, totally innocent and about as twee as you will find! Myself To Blame is short and repetitive, but jumps along nicely with jangly [...]

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MJ Hibbett’s boss was in an indie band once

MJ Hibbett & The Validators release a new (and strictly limited) CD single today. It’s called My Boss Was In An Indie Band Once and is taken from the album Regardez, Ecoutez Et Repetez. The single is backed with multimedia extras of the Dinosaur Planet show which was recorded at this years Edinburgh Fringe. Get [...]

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